Search results for moral panic

Social Sciences Mar 20, 2024

The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies

Selfies have become the modern day equivalent of postcards, a way to share our travel experiences with family and friends on social media. It's one thing to strike a goofy pose and snap a photo for Instagram on a beach or ...

Political science Feb 18, 2024

Disinformation threatens global elections: How to fight back

With over half the world's population heading to the polls in 2024, disinformation season is upon us—and the warnings are dire. The World Economic Forum declared misinformation a top societal threat over the next two years ...

Social Sciences Feb 9, 2024

Gangster lifestyles of young people may be altered through dialogue and education, research suggests

]On 28 October 2003, Barcelona became the backdrop for a tragic incident that would reverberate across the Spanish port city and beyond.

Social Sciences Nov 29, 2023

Researcher: Policing is not the answer to shoplifting, feeding people is

Big businesses like to tell us that, as consumers, we all pay for food theft. We've been sold a narrative that as consumers who don't steal, we pay for the theft of food by others on our grocery receipts.

Social Sciences Nov 28, 2023

Writing instructors are less afraid of students cheating with ChatGPT than you might think

When ChatGPT launched a year ago, headlines flooded the internet about fears of student cheating. A pair of essays in The Atlantic decried "the end of high-school English" and the death of the college essay." NPR informed ...

Education Nov 20, 2023

Researchers: South African university students use AI to help them understand—not to avoid work

When ChatGPT was released in November 2022, it sparked many conversations and moral panics. These center on the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on the information environment. People worry that AI chatbots ...

Social Sciences Jul 27, 2023

Banning cellphones in classrooms is not a quick fix for student well-being

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has released a report highlighting the many challenges of the growing presence of technology in education.

Social Sciences Jul 24, 2023

Viewpoint: Panic over supposed 'super-predator' teens ended years ago, but its consequences did not

A South Carolina judge heard arguments in late May 2023 to reconsider the sentence for Jesse Osborne, who carried out a school shooting in 2016. Fourteen years old at the time, Osborne killed his father, then opened fire ...

Social Sciences Jun 22, 2023

Opinion: Bathrooms are political—how gender-inclusive toilets can combat indignity and violence

A new hate crimes bill is inching closer to the possibility of becoming law in South Africa. The bill entrenches human dignity as a foundational value of the country by providing for penalties for explicit acts of violence ...

Social Sciences Jun 20, 2023

Opinion: Conspiracy theories aren't on the rise—we need to stop panicking

Several polls in the past couple of years (including from Ipsos, YouGov and most recently Savanta on behalf of Kings College Policy Institute and the BBC) have been examining the kinds of conspiratorial beliefs people have. ...

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